Some random day in July 2014, I had a sudden idea: I wanted to start another collaboration project like "Hey Mason". So I approached an old friend of mine, Walkazo, and pitched the general concept to her. She was as excited about it as I was, and so I drew up a shoddy first chapter and created a thread called "I heard you have a dragon problem?". We had no idea where exactly this was going to go, but with both of us being fairly ambitious storytellers, we already anticipated that it would probably explode way past any scope we envisioned at that time.

Under the combined efforts of both of us, the comic would run for several months until its conclusion in March 2015. Starting out with just a few loose set-pieces, it would weave everything into a coherent narrative over 50 chapters, partly improvised, partly preconceived. It now stands as one of the biggest completed works on Userpedia, and has been read by people both inside and outside the MarioWiki community.

What a lot of people don't know is just how stressful the production of this comic was. There were creative differences, difficulties from the outside, bad moods, and arguments. In its final stages, the tension turned outright hostile, with her rejecting and insulting my ideas as bad writing, and me being a suffocating and controlling presence in the project. We both said some extremely nasty things to each other, things that make me outright afraid of going back and reading any of the PMs from that time. In the end, the strain was so great it damaged our friendship, and by the comic's completion we were no longer on speaking terms.

It fills me with great sadness that things happened that way. And now, with Walkazo's passing, we have both been denied any chance of closure. The months following her passing have been filled with confusion and internal conflict. I keep asking myself questions like:

"Am I allowed to grieve?"

"Should I be allowed to be sad even though I treated her badly?"

"Would she be angry if she knew I cried for her?"

I have no answers for these questions. My mind gets caught in an infinite loop every time I try and think about it. There is no answer. There is nothing I can do but say that I regret what happened, that I wish I would have been more attentive and seen the signs, that maybe I could have been better at not offending her or making her feel inferior. And there is nothing I can do but pray that, wherever, in whatever form she exists now, somehow this sentiment is going to reach her, and she knows that I am sorry for what happened.

Walkazo was a good friend. When I arrived in this community as some sort of drifting rando-shmoe who was gonna fix some grammar mistakes and piss off after making a bunch of *bleep*ty level articles, she was the one who asked me to please stay, because there are so many good people who arrive and immediately leave again. Before all of this turned sour, she told me that she viewed convincing me to stay as one of her greatest accomplishments of her admin career. One of my greatest fears is that I caused this to be not true anymore.

Walkazo had to make a lot of sacrifices to realize the creation of this comic. Hard sacrifices that the public has no idea had to be made. Hardships that no one but a few knew existed. So the next time you read the comic for whatever reason, know who made it all possible, know just how much she had to put in to make it possible...

Hello everyone. Welcome to the presentation of the Wiki Contributor Award. This is the first year that we have presented such an award, which aims to recognize users who have shown an incredible amount of commitment to the wiki and its upkeeping. Those who have taken on major projects, maintained consistently productive activity, helped the wiki to a great extent, or have otherwise been one of the stones that has kept our wiki strong and standing.

Within our userbase, there are many users within our great community who are very deserving of this recognition. Unfortunately, due to limitations on the number of users we could shortlist, we were not able to include everyone. We truly appreciate every individual contributor who has helped to build our encyclopedia. Keep up your outstanding work and dedication.

Tonight I shall have the honor to present to you, three users who have received the most nominations for the Wiki Contributor award. Click through the tag below to proceed.

Third place of the Wiki Contributor award goes to RandomYoshi, a name which resounds in all areas of our community.

The first exchange I had with RandomYoshi was brief, but memorable. It was around the time when we were both relatively new to the community. I saw that there was a guy busily editing away on Recent Changes with "Yoshi" in his name, which was a good a reason as any to ask if he would like to exchange friend userboxes (yeah, remember those?) I'm not sure if you were very pleased that I interrupted your editing, but we exchanged userboxes just the same!

You've come a long way since that day. You've become an #mwchat operator, director of The 'Shroom, and have earned a promotion to become a wiki patroller.

Returning from an extended hiatus in the latter stages of 2015, RandomYoshi re-emerged into the wiki community with a focused and purposeful level of activity. He established new positive connections with users while renewing old ones, involved himself in important decisions and discussions, and took on various, lengthy projects. Most notably, his impressive work creating articles for the ''Super Mario Galaxy'' missions, while implementing a table system to summarize the missions on the individual galaxy articles.

RandomYoshi has shown an extremely high-level capacity to effectively communicate, and diligently collaborate with other users. With the best interests of both the wiki and its users in mind, he kindly approaches others and explains in detail on how they can improve in their editing. His contributions have always been well informed, trustworthy and of a consistently high quality. RandomYoshi has continuously proven to be a valuable wiki contributor and member of the wider community, and he truly deserves to be honored with a place in this presentation.

Well done, RandomYoshi!

Second place goes to a profound user whose single, unchanged goal in these many years has been sharply focused towards the continued refinement of the wiki, and the improvement of its contributors.

Lindsay151 takes second place tonight. From her first tentative steps on the wiki, she was already a rising sun. And she only shone brighter and brighter through her extremely high level of activity, close eye for maintaining quality control from Recent Changes, and specialty in uploading rare and high quality artwork.

Some of my earliest memories on the wiki were of Lindsay, giving me advice, correcting my mistakes and guiding me in the right direction. She inspired me in her great interest of the website's images, and I feel proud to have collaborated many times with her on various uploading projects. Whenever one of us had sourced a rare game guide or other kind of material, we would send each other the raw scans. And then work together to prepare the images so that they were suitable to upload. Those were some of my most fondest memories of my time here. I owe a lot to you, Lindsay. I wish that I could do half as much for you as you have done for me.

I have understood that Lindsay started off as a very shy and unassertive user. I imagine how difficult this would have made it to contribute her honest thoughts in discussions, and be involved in wiki decisions. But Lindsay is the optimum example who teaches us to persist in what we love, and that we are not limited by our weaknesses. It is the strengths in our abilities that make us grow and become great.

I would also like to honour Lindsay with a special mention of her inconceivably high edit count, which has almost hit 50,000. I was honestly lost for words when I saw this, I've never known of any user to reach such a number. Although the edit count does not measure a great user, it is a number that Lindsay deserves to be proud of alongside her commendable achievements to the wiki.

Congratulations, Lindsay!

That leaves us with our first placeholder, the winner of the Wiki Contributor award. This high recognition belongs to...

Walkazo. Perhaps our most prolific wiki editor and a leading member of staff, Walkazo is a true inspiration for me. Her passing away in a traffic accident over Easter earlier this year leaves a vacancy in the hearts of many people throughout all branches of the MarioWiki community. Tonight this award goes to you, Walkazo. We celebrate your exceedingly accomplished term as a wiki staff member, and honour your revered name which will have an indelible impression on all future editors.

Walkazo is renowned for her expertise in MarioWiki policy. She had great pride in its creation, upkeep and enforcement. She surpassed most others and led the way through complicated wiki discussions with her conviction, incredibly precise arguments, and formidable intellect. She used these skills to raise many proposals, major changes and issues regarding areas on how the wiki functions. Walkazo left us the foundation, cornerstones and at least six floors for us to continue building the database that she was so passionate for, and cared so much about.

We mainly worked together on a professional level, so I had few chances to get to know you personally. But throughout all the hours which were made heavy by work and wiki discussions, it was clear that there was always something left over which was never discarded or marked as completed. It was using your passion and breadth of knowledge to not only fulfil your own goals and interests, but to share them with me and many others. That is a beautiful quality to have. Thank you for seeing something in me, Walkazo. You always provided me with a sense of unity whilst working together. And unity, is what makes a wiki strong.

That concludes our first Wiki Contributor award presentation. It was a pleasure and privilege to present to you some of our most distinguished contributors to the wiki, and its extended communities. I wish you all a good night, and enjoy the rest of the awards.

As you all are no doubt aware, we here at the Mariowiki are avid supporters of organized crime. Why, we even have an entire sub-forum dedicated to it.

But you know what they say about too many cooks. You just can't have multiple mafias sharing the same space for an extended period of time and expect things to keep running smoothly. So we figured: Let's just have an all-out turf war to decide which mafia deserves to be at the top of the food chain.

Which is the mafia to end all mafias?

Is it Awards Mafia V, the game co-hosted by MCD, Superchao, and Smasher, notable for including several different factions and the bizarre scenario of having Fire Lord Ozai take orders from Plankton?